[Usability] Main Menu icon

From: Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdslink ro>

To: usability <usability gnome org>

Subject: [Usability] Main Menu icon

Date: 27 Sep 2003 23:55:38 +0300

Ola
There is a discussion on fedora list about new menu icon, somebody
suggested "replacing it with the "favicon" that is present on the
fedora.redhat.com website"
How about replacing it with a graphic that suggest there's a menu there?
People coming from Windows are used to start by pressing Start, now they
have to press on a hat, very intuitive.
Most usable I could find is
/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-run.png
but should be something better, made specially for the main menu.
Havoc replied:
GNOME 2.4 now supports a non-square thing there; ideally I believe it
would be simply text (perhaps saying "Main Menu") plus maybe an arrow
drawn by the theme engine and/or an icon of some kind.
Though I don't think KDE supports a rectangle with text so it introduces
a consistency problem if we do that. Also if using a rectangle we'd
probably want the half-height panel.
Help?
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Marius Andreiana
LOAD - Linux Open Alternative Days
Specialist Linux, Co-organizator
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